Kiwis polish off Australia

New Zealand thrashed hosts and defending champions Australia by 89 runs on Saturday to start the Twenty20 World Cup Super 12 in style and avenge defeat in last yearrsquos finalDevon Conway carried his bat with a majestic unbeaten 92 to help New Zealand blast 2003 before Australia were skittled for 111 in the 18th over to make a nightmare start to their title defenceConwayrsquos knock came from just 58 balls with seven fours and two sixes joining a select group to make 90 or more at a World Cup Mitchell Santner and Tim Southee both took three wickets eachWilliamson Outstanding dayIt was New Zealandrsquos first win against Australia in Australia in any format since 2011 ldquoIt was one of those days an outstanding dayrdquo captain Kane Williamson purredldquoThe openers set the tone lots of contributions right through the batting and that was a very good score on this pitchrdquo said WilliamsonldquoThe bowlers then did well and were well supported in the field Everyone knows their roles in this team we knew about the quality of their bowling took the game deep and we were very clinical in what we needed to dordquoAlso readT20 World Cup Australia win toss elect to bowl against New ZealandThe match at a soldout Sydney Cricket Ground was a repeat of the 2021 final in Dubai when Australia powered to an eightwicket win and maiden crown Aaron Finchrsquos men now have their work cut out to match that feat in a tough Group 1 with Afghanistan England and qualifiers Ireland and Sri Lanka awaiting themOnly the top two make the semifinals ldquoThey New Zealand openers set the tone in the first four overs and we didnrsquot recoverrdquo said skipper FinchldquoWe needed early wickets which didnrsquot happen and when we chased we lost too many wickets We werenrsquot good enough with the net runrate taking a bad hitlsquoNeed to win everythingrsquoldquoWe play Sri Lanka next four games left need to win everything and have some luck on our siderdquoNew Zealand got off to a sensational start after Finch sent them in to bat with Finn Allen cracking two fours and a six off Mitchell Starcrsquos opening over Not to be outdone Conway then crunched two blistering boundaries off Josh Hazlewood as the Black Caps plundered 29 from the first two oversBrief scoresNew Zealand 2003 in 20 overs D Conway 92 F Allen 42 J Hazlewood 241 beat Australia 111 all out in 171 overs G Maxwell 28 T Southee 36 Mitchell Santner 331 by 89 runsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever